Lee Westwood on Downing Street Christmas party: "The RATS are on the ship"

Eddie Pepperell also took time to post his thoughts about the alleged party, as did Richard Bland...

08 Dec 2021

Lee Westwood on Downing Street Christmas party: "The RATS are on the ship"

If you are from the United Kingdom and happen to live under a bridge there is a controversial story developing.

While millions of people lived in isolation and lost loved ones, it appears Downing Street may have hosted a Christmas party.

This would have broken the lockdown rules at the time. A video has emerged which shows senior staff laughing and joking about it.

The video was from a rehearsal from a Downing Street briefing which was due to be hosted by then spokesperson Allegra Stratton.

Aides can be seen laughing about it, making references to cheese and wine before a befuddled Stratton said: 'What's the answer?'

As you can imagine, quite a lot of people are unhappy about the revelation. One rule for one, another for them, people have stated.

That day, more than 400 people died with COVID-19.

Clearly the rats are on the ship. Eyeballing each other to see who’s going to flinch first!
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) December 8, 2021

All government ministers right now. pic.twitter.com/I4w6x6bgsY
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) December 8, 2021

While Eddie Pepperrell chimed in:

I should admit this now, I went to that party at Downing Street. In my defence I wasn’t there long!
I mean how long does it take to call someone a c
— Eddie Pepperell (@PepperellEddie) December 7, 2021

Prime minister Boris Johnson is due to field questions about it later.

The event is said to have happened on 18 December. That was at the time the Government advice was to not have Christmas parties.

Number 10 continues to maintain there was no party and no restrictions were broken.

Government ministers when asked to do the interviews on breakfast news channels this morning pic.twitter.com/zDGckMG5nl
— Richard Bland (@blandy73) December 8, 2021